Gigamon has made available its GigaVUE 6.12, introducing new support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC), further expanding the capabilities of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline.
This release equips organizations with an immediate defensive strategy against emerging cryptographic threats hidden in encrypted traffic. These include both classic and post-quantum ciphers, while accelerating the transition to quantum-safe encryption standards. Leading analysts forecast traditional cryptography will be unsafe as early as 2030.
According to the Gigamon Hybrid Cloud Security Survey of more than 1,000 Security and IT leaders, 73% are currently planning to implement PQC in their networks, as they prepare their hybrid cloud infrastructure and defense strategies for quantum computing.
“Quantum readiness isn’t a future concern. It’s a critical imperative for all security teams today,” said Chaim Mazal, chief AI and security officer at Gigamon. “With the advances we’ve made, I’m optimistic about the safeguards we’re building to future-proof hybrid cloud infrastructure and its data.”
As organizations prepare for the transition from public key algorithms to PQC, security and IT teams first require an understanding of where cryptography is used, how data flows between systems, and which assets remain exposed.
That level of insight is only possible through deep observability, the correlation of network-derived telemetry —- packets, flows, and metadata —- with log data from security, cloud, and observability tools.
The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline promises this level of intelligence by exposing weak cipher suites and non-compliant encryption methods that often remain hidden in encrypted flows. The aim is to let organizations build a cryptographic inventory, validate PQC implementations, and promote the secure and efficient operation of encryption, whether classical or quantum-safe.
Amid the industry’s transition to PQC, threat actors are adopting a “harvest now, decrypt later” strategy to exfiltrate unreadable data now with a plan to decrypt it once the technology is available.
Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI), which is network-derived telemetry enriched with application-level context, delivers visibility into encrypted traffic and now also supports PQC, enabling organizations to easily identify, report, and eliminate insecure cryptographic practices.
